Elves and Reindeer
@reindeerarebetter.bsky.social
Fan of fantasy, sci-fi, critters, and spec-fic critters. I follow you if you're interesting, or friendly, or you helped me beat up a Nazi in one of BlueSky's dark alleys.
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What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.
Prelude: I am not proposing a legit read of Lord of the Rings in this thread. I AM proposing a legit read of #Project2025 and its circle. 1/6
Trying not to wake the family laughing.
I'm finally starting season 2 of "Finding Mr. Christmas," the Hallmark reality show where the most wholesome, non-toxic men in America compete for the chance to be a Christmas movie star (somehow a real job), judged by a gay man and Barbra Jean from "Reba"
it's the greatest show you're not watching
it's the greatest show you're not watching
December 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Trying not to wake the family laughing.
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
Tallulah: a river in Rabun County, northeastern Georgia, which flows into the tugaloo, and has a beautiful
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
Tallulah: a river in Rabun County, northeastern Georgia, which flows into the tugaloo, and has a beautiful
December 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
Tallulah: a river in Rabun County, northeastern Georgia, which flows into the tugaloo, and has a beautiful
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
Tallulah: a river in Rabun County, northeastern Georgia, which flows into the tugaloo, and has a beautiful
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Why is the media not covering this. On a loop.
December 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Why is the media not covering this. On a loop.
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Another handbag for justice. Another purse against fascism. The famous clobber-a-Nazi image from Sweden 40 years ago.
The image that won’t go away
A photo taken in 1985 has resurfaced this week. Kelly Grovier looks at the power of a figure pushed to breaking point.
www.bbc.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Another handbag for justice. Another purse against fascism. The famous clobber-a-Nazi image from Sweden 40 years ago.
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
I think a bunch more Americans are about to learn how skeezy the oil-shipping industry actually is.
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I think a bunch more Americans are about to learn how skeezy the oil-shipping industry actually is.
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Thanks to: @pileusmedia.bsky.social
This sums up my position, though I was only born in 1961.
Macmillanite, Keynesian, mixed economy... centre-right in the '60s, far-left now.
This sums up my position, though I was only born in 1961.
Macmillanite, Keynesian, mixed economy... centre-right in the '60s, far-left now.
March 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Thanks to: @pileusmedia.bsky.social
This sums up my position, though I was only born in 1961.
Macmillanite, Keynesian, mixed economy... centre-right in the '60s, far-left now.
This sums up my position, though I was only born in 1961.
Macmillanite, Keynesian, mixed economy... centre-right in the '60s, far-left now.
Drinking coffee, shuttling dogs out (life is easier when your dogs like each other, but), and gearing up to rewrite a grim passage with more detail.
The thing about character-driven writing is that sometimes the nightmare that wakes you up isn't yours.
To do: See if anyone fMRIs this stuff.
The thing about character-driven writing is that sometimes the nightmare that wakes you up isn't yours.
To do: See if anyone fMRIs this stuff.
December 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Drinking coffee, shuttling dogs out (life is easier when your dogs like each other, but), and gearing up to rewrite a grim passage with more detail.
The thing about character-driven writing is that sometimes the nightmare that wakes you up isn't yours.
To do: See if anyone fMRIs this stuff.
The thing about character-driven writing is that sometimes the nightmare that wakes you up isn't yours.
To do: See if anyone fMRIs this stuff.
There's always a certain hesitation to tell this guy he's crazy.
December 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
There's always a certain hesitation to tell this guy he's crazy.
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UPDATE: 3 things I learned today
1) Political leaders haven’t thought much about the health threats of CO2 capture and storage. Eg CO2 pipelines have kill zones. Leaks can acidify aquifers and mobilize heavy metals.
2) 45Q tax credits for CCS are now by far the biggest subsidy to oil and gas
AND…
1) Political leaders haven’t thought much about the health threats of CO2 capture and storage. Eg CO2 pipelines have kill zones. Leaks can acidify aquifers and mobilize heavy metals.
2) 45Q tax credits for CCS are now by far the biggest subsidy to oil and gas
AND…
Here at the US Capitol to talk with some senators about the risks and harms of carbon capture and storage, which is mostly used to extract more oil from ground, enjoys taxpayer subsidies, is prone to escape, threatens drinking water and public health, and is generally scammy.
Science belongs here.
Science belongs here.
December 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
UPDATE: 3 things I learned today
1) Political leaders haven’t thought much about the health threats of CO2 capture and storage. Eg CO2 pipelines have kill zones. Leaks can acidify aquifers and mobilize heavy metals.
2) 45Q tax credits for CCS are now by far the biggest subsidy to oil and gas
AND…
1) Political leaders haven’t thought much about the health threats of CO2 capture and storage. Eg CO2 pipelines have kill zones. Leaks can acidify aquifers and mobilize heavy metals.
2) 45Q tax credits for CCS are now by far the biggest subsidy to oil and gas
AND…
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Spydere Man, Spydere Man
Doth al things a spydere kan
Sondry webbes he kan weaven
Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen
Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man
Doth al things a spydere kan
Sondry webbes he kan weaven
Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen
Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man
December 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Spydere Man, Spydere Man
Doth al things a spydere kan
Sondry webbes he kan weaven
Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen
Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man
Doth al things a spydere kan
Sondry webbes he kan weaven
Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen
Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man
Case Study: In Your Guts, You Know He’s Nuts mockpaperscissors.com/2025/12/10/c...
Case Study: In Your Guts, You Know He’s Nuts
”Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter!” Remember my premise: the context of Grandpa Sundowner’s rants should be that he’s on the couch talking to a therapist, So this caught my attention: On…
mockpaperscissors.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Case Study: In Your Guts, You Know He’s Nuts mockpaperscissors.com/2025/12/10/c...
DON'T THINK ABOUT ELEPHANTS!!!
We all just did. But did you think a picture? A video? The smell at the zoo? The word "elephant" in Times New Roman?
Genuinely curious here.
We all just did. But did you think a picture? A video? The smell at the zoo? The word "elephant" in Times New Roman?
Genuinely curious here.
December 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
DON'T THINK ABOUT ELEPHANTS!!!
We all just did. But did you think a picture? A video? The smell at the zoo? The word "elephant" in Times New Roman?
Genuinely curious here.
We all just did. But did you think a picture? A video? The smell at the zoo? The word "elephant" in Times New Roman?
Genuinely curious here.
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the utter fucking disdain I have for the "free market libertarian think tankers" that paved the way for this authoritarian "victory" over federal corporate accountability is bottomless
garbage, pseudo-intellectual assholes whose myopic anti-governance dogshit will have an immeasurable body count
garbage, pseudo-intellectual assholes whose myopic anti-governance dogshit will have an immeasurable body count
December 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
the utter fucking disdain I have for the "free market libertarian think tankers" that paved the way for this authoritarian "victory" over federal corporate accountability is bottomless
garbage, pseudo-intellectual assholes whose myopic anti-governance dogshit will have an immeasurable body count
garbage, pseudo-intellectual assholes whose myopic anti-governance dogshit will have an immeasurable body count
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Between this and previous rulings, U.S. corporations have effectively put a bullet in the head of labor protections, consumer protection, public safety, environmental law, and corporate oversight
I wish journalists would go a bit lighter on the legalese and a bit heavier on the real-world impact
I wish journalists would go a bit lighter on the legalese and a bit heavier on the real-world impact
Supreme Court appears likely to approve Trump’s firing of FTC Democrat
Conservative justices seem ready to back Trump control of independent agencies.
arstechnica.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Between this and previous rulings, U.S. corporations have effectively put a bullet in the head of labor protections, consumer protection, public safety, environmental law, and corporate oversight
I wish journalists would go a bit lighter on the legalese and a bit heavier on the real-world impact
I wish journalists would go a bit lighter on the legalese and a bit heavier on the real-world impact
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Trump’s cognitive test revealed.
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Trump’s cognitive test revealed.
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BREAKING via Reuters
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles and ordered them returned to the control of Governor Gavin Newsom.
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles and ordered them returned to the control of Governor Gavin Newsom.
December 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
BREAKING via Reuters
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles and ordered them returned to the control of Governor Gavin Newsom.
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles and ordered them returned to the control of Governor Gavin Newsom.
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So now humans are getting lost/trapped and other humans have to send out search parties to find them because AI doesn't have the capacity to account for sudden trail closures
For me personally? That sums up exactly how unreliable AI is
futurism.com/ai-chatbots-...
For me personally? That sums up exactly how unreliable AI is
futurism.com/ai-chatbots-...
AI Chatbots Are Putting Clueless Hikers in Danger, Search and Rescue Groups Warn
Hikers are ending up in need of rescue because they're following the questionable recommendations of an AI chatbot.
futurism.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
So now humans are getting lost/trapped and other humans have to send out search parties to find them because AI doesn't have the capacity to account for sudden trail closures
For me personally? That sums up exactly how unreliable AI is
futurism.com/ai-chatbots-...
For me personally? That sums up exactly how unreliable AI is
futurism.com/ai-chatbots-...
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I was watching @theserfstv.bsky.social video about Fuentes last night and he says that stuff so fucking explicitly. Talking about married guys disapprovingly:
"..and we both know that guy is never gonna punch her in the face, he's never gonna kill her.. there's no male power coming from the man"
"..and we both know that guy is never gonna punch her in the face, he's never gonna kill her.. there's no male power coming from the man"
How the right wing destroyed itself
YouTube video by The Serfs
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I was watching @theserfstv.bsky.social video about Fuentes last night and he says that stuff so fucking explicitly. Talking about married guys disapprovingly:
"..and we both know that guy is never gonna punch her in the face, he's never gonna kill her.. there's no male power coming from the man"
"..and we both know that guy is never gonna punch her in the face, he's never gonna kill her.. there's no male power coming from the man"
Is this about that JD Vance picture?
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Is this about that JD Vance picture?
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Look, if you wait to get the perfect gun to do the perfect crime, you will just procrastinate and never get all your criming done.
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Look, if you wait to get the perfect gun to do the perfect crime, you will just procrastinate and never get all your criming done.
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.